The Silver State Has Lost Over 58,000 Jobs Since The Bill Was Passed
When Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D-Las Vegas) and her tax-and-spend friends in Washington rammed through the $787 billion stimulus, she promised it would ‘create or save’ 3.5 million jobs and approximately 34,000 of these jobs would be in Nevada. The fact is after 28 months since the stimulus was passed, nearly 1.9 million fewer Americans are employed and Nevada has lost over 58,000 jobs.
As CNSNews reports:
Twenty-eight months after Congress passed President Obama’s signature economic stimulus law, and nearly one year after he declared the summer of 2010 to be “Recovery Summer,” 1.9 million fewer people are employed. In February 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 141.7 million people were employed. By the end of May 2011 – the last month for which data are available – that number had fallen to 139.8 million, a difference of 1.9 million.
“When Shelley Berkley and Harry Reid rammed their $787 billion stimulus into law they promised it would ‘create or save’ 3.5 million jobs, but today there are 1.9 million fewer Americans employed,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox. “Nevadans deserve to know why Berkley blew their money on this massive spending project that failed to get our country and more importantly the state of Nevada back to work.”
Background Information:
ASSOCIATED PRESS: The Obama administration is defending its claim that the $787 billion economic stimulus plan will save or create 3.5 million jobs before 2011 even while conceding that unemployment will likely continue to rise beyond its earlier predictions. (Stimulus plan will create or save 3.5 million jobs, White House says, Associated Press, 05/11/09)
SHELLEY BERKLEY: “From incentives to increase clean energy production to funding for work on I-15 and the Las Vegas Beltway, this [stimulus] package will mean jobs for Nevada at a time when we continue to face record unemployment levels,” said Berkley. “According to the White House, passage of this legislation will create or save 34,000 jobs statewide, with the majority of those in Clark County.” (Shelley Berkley, Berkley: Report Shows Broad Economic Recovery Package Will Mean More Nevada Jobs, Press Release, 02/12/09)
Since The Stimulus Was Passed America Has Lost Nearly 1.9 Million Jobs And Nevada Has Lost Over 58,000 Jobs
- Our County Has Lost Nearly 1.9 Million Jobs Since The Stimulus Passed In February 2009. (Matt Clover, “1.9 Million Fewer Americans Have Jobs Today Than When Obama Signed Stimulus,” CNS News, 6/14/11)
- As Of April 2011, Nevada Has Lost 58,787 Jobs Since The Stimulus Passed In February 2009. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics Website, www.data.bls.gov, Accessed 6/2/11)
